We live in a 24/7 globalised world. When we should be sleeping or doing something else there are always messages from friends or business associates in other parts of the globe. All of this connectivity seems to have a dark side.
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Forget all the sabre rattling of the loonies who run the planet. The solution is deceptively simple. Since the western part of the Ukraine want to join the EU they should be allowed to. The previous, pro-Russian president has lost all credibility in Kiev and the western part of the country. That is a reality.
What is also a reality is the fact that the Russian speaking part of the Ukraine, including the Crimea and the eastern part of the country, basically want to belong to Russia.
A division of the country, without any loss of rights or property ownership, is the way to go. Since a large part of Ukraine’s industrial and economic areas lie in the pro Russian areas it would be necessary for the leaders of Ukraine and Russia to sit down and work out a fair compensation deal. Russia and Ukraine would have to work out a fair division of that industrial wealth that would be transferred to Ukraine. That could be organised with big trade concessions to the Ukraine and a formula for sharing future economic output from the eastern regions that would henceforth belong to the Russian Federation.
Sure, it would require honesty, fair dealing and a lot of flexibility and work but that is a lot better than needless and stupid bloodshed and sabre rattling.
Is this likely to happen considering the morons who are the power brokers of the planet? Don’t hold your breath!
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A Better Label for Cigarette packets
Tony Abbott and Joe Hockey
These men are stealing your money and laughing all the way to the bank stealing your money and laughing all the way to the bank.
OK. Those cigarette packets showing graphics of smoking related diseases aren’t doing the trick in discouraging smoking. There is a much better label; one that shows the faces of the greedy, stupid and short-sighted politicians who are profiting from the outrageous and hypocritical taxes on smokers. It is not as if these creeps want any of us to live past working age, is it? In the case of Australia (the country with the most expensive tobacco products on earth) the faces of those of Tony Abbott, a miserable excuse for a Prime Minister and Joe Hockey, a likewise excuse for a treasurer. At one time Tony Abbott announced that the tax hike on smokers by the previous government was a tax grab! Likewise Joe Hockey said on television that another tax hike on smokers by the previous government was an unreasonable attack on a particular group of people.
Did the new government led by these creeps reverse these taxes? Not on your life. They kept them and are even increasing them further. Never mind the children without shoes and enough to eat. Never mind the fact that organised crime control 13% of the total tobacco market and that figure is increasing by the day. These same morons are destroying Australia’s environment as fast as they can, with no thought of the future tourist dollars they will lose. In the near future even the money markets will give these loonies the thumbs down.
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Although it is a basic human right that people can believe anything they like, and you can’t stop them from this anyway, it does seem that since the advent of radical Islam multicultural societies have been put at risk. Remember the time when almost all Muslims went about their lives as quietly as other folk? Probably not since most of us weren’t born then.
Genuine multiculturalism takes centuries to achieve and many Western countries in their “trendy” attempts to become multicultural overnight have created huge social problems. In most non-Muslim countries where people of a cultural Islamic identity have been welcomed, assimilation has totally failed. Regardless of how horrible conditions were in the Islamic countries they fled from, large numbers of Muslims (perhaps because of a feeling of religious and cultural alienation) have actively tried to change their new homes so that they would become the same as those same countries they fled from.
Obviously, this problem does not apply to indigenous persons of any country who happen to convert to Islam for whatever reason. Yet the problem of radical Islam continues to haunt the world. Why do so many young men from Islamic background pursue paths of terror rather than doing what youngsters normally do; i.e. rebel against authority and seek self gratification in “Sex, drugs and Rock n Roll”? While not defending hedonistic self gratification, compared to the philosophy of terror it does seem the lesser of two evils.
There is huge injustice all over this planet and it doesn’t take a genius to see it. Yet what inspires so many to pursue what could be described as a primitive religion, along with the Zionist extreme of Judaism and some varieties of fundamentalist Christianity? Fundamentalist Islam, Judaism and fundamentalist Christianity are all primitive by virtue of one salient fact. They require a massive oversimplification of the obvious empirical evidence of life for their followers. Far from being esoteric they are stupidly simplistic.
Multiculturalism requires an intrinsic broadness of mind that fundamentalist religions do their best to destroy. It is a pity that Western leaders do not realize this.
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Having recently returned from a trip that included parts of the U.S., including San Francisco and Las Vegas, I couldn’t helping thinking about the numbers of beggars that there were on the streets of such a rich country. In contrast there are a very, very few beggars in Cuba.
It would seem that the USA has enshrined “the winner take all” philosophy in its encouragement of the right for even the mega rich to become richer still while seeming all but totally unconcerned about those who fall through the cracks of society and end up on the streets.
This philosophy has in turn spread to many other countries, including China, India, Mexico, Vietnam and Australia.
One positive thing I noticed during my travels in the USA was the number of older workers. It seems that employers in the US are willing to take on older workers whereas in Australia the majority of employers have a strong prejudice against hiring older workers.
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The loony right has taken taken control of the federal government and most of Australia’s states. It would seem that vulnerable members of our society are having their pensions cut off at random. The immediate dollar is king. In Queensland the state govt. has approved a massive coal port on the edge of the Barrier Reef with dredging dumpings to go onto the reef area itself. It doesn’t really matter does it? It is not as if the Barrier Reef earns any tourist dollars!
In Western Australia the authorities are killing any sharks over 3 metres long that they can lay their hands on. Never mind the fact that the oceans are severely lacking in sharks (the cleaners of the marine eco system).
I must apologise for a delay in my posts. I have been on holiday, including some time in Cuba. While in Trinidad I met an 89 year old man with one leg who fought in the Cuban revolution, alongside Che Guevera, and personally knew him.
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If anybody believes that they have the slightest privacy in this electronic age they are totally deluded. Some police forces have number plate detection cameras atop their cars that record every vehicle they pass such that everywhere that vehicle has been for years, and presumably that vehicle’s owner in most cases, can be extracted from a database.
Our smart phones enable enough data about our movements, history, life preferences and politics to be grabbed by governments and companies to fill volumes. Numbers of shopping centres round the world are dipping into data from such phones and sending it who knows where? Much of the data ends up in the USA where they maybe some constitutional protections for its own citizens but none for the rest of us.
If that isn’t enough our use of Facebook etc. gives governments even more information about ourselves to fill in any gaps in their knowledge. Doubtless, my views expressed in this blog have been collected somewhere by various government authorities. However, I am probably too insignificant for them to be bothered by them.
Edward Snowden’s revelations caused considerable protest against US spying by governments in Europe and elsewhere. Unsurprisingly, the Australian government along with both major political parties said nothing. It just hoped that the public would forget about it quickly.
Unfortunately, democracy is only as good as its Lowest Common Denominator. That translates as “democratic governments reflect the values and attitudes of the lowest level of their citizens where that lowest level boasts large numbers.”
It would seem certain that power brokers of our planet will destroy the environment and any semblence of a decent society at the same time as politically destroying the last vestiges of human freedom. In his vision of the future the only thing that George Orwell got wrong was the date!
In recent years the majority of governments around the world (although there are exceptions, such as parts of western Europe) have largely been of the rich and powerful, by the rich and powerful and for the rich and powerful. The poor and the weak are just as unimportant as the environment. More and more individuals are becoming totally alienated. It is no wonder that there is so much terrorism and wanton destruction.
The principles of anarchism (not simple anarchy) come into play here. Humanity needs more positive controls (where controls are necessary) and fewer negative ones. An example of positive controls is where friends or relatives of an at-risk individual prevent him or her from committing a crime. This is a much superior outcome than having police arrest that individual after committing a crime.
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If you have ever brought a young child to a nursing home you will have noticed how the faces of the residents light up with new life. It is a pity that no one has thought of bringing young children from orphanages to nursing homes. It would benefit the old folk as well as these children who often don’t receive enough affection and cuddles. Many of the residents of nursing homes could be stand in grandparents for the orphans.
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As more information comes from Edward Snowden’s leaks of NSA documents it is apparent that he is the hero of the hour. It is blatantly obvious that there is little privacy in the modern world as it is but it seems that the USA and other powers will stop at nothing until they have a created a world with no freedom, no rights and no joy. They aim to create a world such as that portrayed in George Orwell’s novel, ‘1984.’ It would seem that Orwell was on the right track and only estimated the date wrongly. The coming world will much more resemble ‘1984’ than Aldous Huxley’s portrayed one in ‘Brave New World’ as in the latter one at least the populace were given drugs to keep them content. Our world wants to tax or remove any chemical help and leave control by terror.
Edward Snowden is leading the charge in the fight against this future, along with Julian Assange and Bradley Manning.
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